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Uncharted 4 players will be doubly rewarded this weekend, as Naughty Dog has launched a Double XP event for the action game’s multiplayer mode.

Not only that, but you’ll get a 50 percent Relic bonus for all completed challenges, Naughty Dog explained in a blog post announcing the event.

You have until Monday, October 17 to take advantage of the bonuses.

Uncharted 4’s latest free DLC, Bounty Hunters, came out in September. It added the Bounty Hunters mode and a new version of the Village map from Uncharted 2. Also introduced was a cinema replay mode. Check out GameSpot’s previous coverage to learn more about Bounty Hunters.

This Uncharted 4 bonus period runs at the same time as the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare PS4-exclusive multiplayer beta. You can read more about the beta, which faced some matchmaking issues, here.

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With Halloween right around the corner, you might be thinking about carving a pumpkin. If you want to try your hand at a Halo design, 343 Industries has now released a number of stencils to help you out.

The developer posted 11 stencils on its blog, ranging in difficulty from Easy to Legendary. Some of the designs are for Halo items like the energy sword, Master Chief’s helmet, the UNSC logo, and a Guardian. That last one is listed as being of the Legendary difficulty variety–and it certainly looks like it.

Check out all the stencils in the blog post or in the image gallery above. Print them out and then apply to your pumpkin to get started. You can then post your creation on Twitter using the hashtag #HaloLantern for a chance to have it featured in an upcoming post by 343. #HaloLantern is the same hashtag that the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim used in the past for their own pumpkin-carving promotion.

Last year, someone made a frightfully good Halo pumpkin carving that depicted the Master Chief vs. Locke showdown that was the focus of Halo 5’s story.

When gutting your pumpkin, you can save the seeds and easily roast them for a very tasty snack.

Keep checking back with GameSpot for more in the days ahead on how video games are celebrating Halloween. For now, check out the stories below.

• Overwatch: All the Halloween Skins

• Resident Evil Becomes an Escape Room Experience for Halloween
• Elder Scrolls Online Halloween Festival Lets You Morph Into a Zombie

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Each week we search and gather up the coolest comic book art you won’t see in actual comics. The reason you won’t is because professional artists often draw sketches for fun or commissions and post them on their websites, blogs, and Tumblrs. Some artists even arrange commissions through their sites so be sure to check them out. This is a way to see the artists working on one book draw characters from other comics or publishers.

Mike Henderson posted new art on his Instagram. He has original art for sale here.

Todd Nauck posted some recent commissions from New York Comic Con on his Tumblr.

Sara Pichelli also was at NYCC and posted some commissions on her Tumblr.

Matteo Scalera posted some of his NYCC commissions on his Instagram.

Gabriel Hardman posted his commissions on his Tumblr.

Mike McKone posted new sketches on his Twitter.

Chrissie Zullo posted new art on her Facebook page.

Dustin Nguyen posted new sketches on his Instagram.

Daniel HDR posted new art on his Instagram.

Joel Gomez posted a couple new sketches on his Tumblr.

Skottie Young posted more Daily Sketches on his Tumblr. Original art goes is on sale here.

Paolo Rivera posted a couple new sketches on his blog.

Franco posted new paintings on his Instagram. His original art is for sale here.

Denis Medri posted new sketches on his Deviant Art page.

Jim Cheung posted recent commissions on his Instagram.

Chris Giarrusso has new sketch covers for sale here. He also posted new sketch cards on his website.

Marcio Takara posted NYCC commissions on his Tumblr.

Andrew Robinson posted commissions on his Instagram.

Mahmud Asrar posted his commissions from New York on his Tumblr.

Chris Samnee posted new art on his Instagram.

That’s it for this week. Let us know which ones you dug. We’ll have more awesome art next time.

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Stranger Things Season 2 releases next year, and with it come new cast members and characters. Dacre Montgomery, the Red Ranger in next year’s Power Rangers, has joined the cast, alongside Sadie Sink who played Suzanne Ballard in television series American Odyssey.

EW reports that Montgomery plays a character named Billy. He’s the step brother to Ballard’s character, Max, and is described as “hyper-confident and edgy.”

“He steals girlfriends away from their boyfriends, is great at drinking games, and drives a black Camaro,” EW’s description continues. “But lurking under his apparent charisma, is a violent and unpredictable nature.”

Max, on the other hand, is “a tough and confident girl whose appearance, behavior, and pursuits seem more typical of boys than of girls in this era. She has a complicated history and is generally suspicious of those around her.” It’ll be interesting to see how the two characters play off each other and the rest of the cast.

Speaking of the cast, both Joe Keery and Noah Schnapp, who played Steve Harrington and Will Byers respectively, now have full-time regular roles, as opposed to the recurring ones we saw them fill in the first season.

Stranger Things showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer have a rough idea of where the story could go in seasons past the second. However, the two brothers don’t expect the show to run for all that long.

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With the release of Oceanhorn on PS4 and Xbox One last month, publisher FDG Entertainment has announced that the game has sold one million units across all platforms. In addition to the aforementioned consoles, it’s out now on PC, Mac, and iOS devices.

In a press release, FDG revealed that Oceanhorn is set to be ported to Android and “a Nintendo console.” While that could be referring to the upcoming NX, it’s not confirmed. We’ve contacted FDG to clarify which platform it’s speaking about and will update this article as we receive more information.

The Zelda-like adventure game is also on its way to the Vita, which FDG announced on Twitter last month. No release dates were revealed for any of the new platforms.

Oceanhorn developer Cornfox & Bros announced a sequel back in August. Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm utilizes a third-person camera, as opposed to the top-down perspective of the first game. Despite this change, Cornfox said it would be “built upon the same elements that were the heart and soul of the first Oceanhorn game: exploring a colorful world, a deep backstory with secrets and twists, amazing music, and most importantly, classic action-RPG gameplay with items, puzzles, battles, and badass bosses.”

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According to a new report, Sony will launch “five or more” smartphone games in 2018 as part of its newly formed mobile gaming division, ForwardWorks. Nikkei reports that these games, which could launch in March 2018, will be “targeted” at Japan and other parts of Asia.

Sony could announce them by the end of the year, the report said (via MCV).

As announced previously, these games may pull from Sony’s library of characters and franchises. Interestingly, Nikkei reports that “some older games that cannot be played on the latest hardware will be revived” for smartphone games. Additionally, “games may be linked to consoles as well,” the report said.

The games, whatever they turn out to be, will be made for iOS and Android devices.

“The company will aim to deliver users with opportunity to casually enjoy full-fledged game titles in the new field of the smart device market,” Sony said in March when it announced the new smartphone game division. The company added that it formed ForwardWorks so as to meet the demands of the “ever-expanding smart device market.”

Sony has only announced that its new smartphone games will be released in Japan and Asia, though the company has not ruled out bringing them to the west as well.

The smartphone market is nothing new for Sony, as the company’s PlayStation Mobile division has already launched titles like Run Sackboy Run and Ratchet & Clank: Before the Nexus.

Nintendo also has big plans for the smartphone market. Its first game, Miitomo, came out earlier this year, while Super Mario Run is scheduled to arrive in December. Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing smartphone games are also on the way.

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